Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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